GPUs that were trapped for crypto mining for a while, GPUs that fell out of favor due to the declines and the difficulty of mining are looking for new owners in the second-hand market. This was also the subject of a parody.
any period of time GPU (video card) The first thing to do was to go around and find the GPU we wanted. Especially cryptocurrency mining It was very difficult to find the GPUs used for this in the market. This situation has recently been reversed.
Cryptocurrency markets are on the decline, and new regulations have come in for mining as well. With the release of the new series GPUs, many discarded graphics processors have also filled the second-hand market. This situation, a vietnamese social media phenomenon was on the agenda.
GPUs were sold by the kilo.
Vietnamese Lê Thanh, who calls himself the “king of VGA”, shared photos on Facebook and other social media platforms. He made fun of the state of the GPU market. Thanh, who set up a replica of Vietnam’s famous street stalls, started selling GPUs stacked on top of each other.
Thanh continued his joke when someone on the road saw this and stopped. After weighing the selected GPUs by kilo, he put them in a red bag and handed them to his customer. Between GPUs on the bench products belonging to the big companies of the sector was also seen.
The era of Ethereum mining with the GPU has ended, and then the decline in prices accelerated. The fact that people’s demand for graphics processors has decreased as a result of the end of the pandemic does not help the old miners at all.
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This situation is also evident in the predictions of the manufacturers. None of the major manufacturers expect a bright performance in the coming period. At least we are more likely to find a GPU in the future.
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